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Pepé himself made a more obvious cameo in Dog Pounded ( 1954 ), where he was attracted to Sylvester after the latter tried to get around a pack of guard dogs, in his latest attempt to capture and eat Tweety Bird, by painting a white stripe down his back ( in his only appearance in a Freleng short ).
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Pepé and himself
The invitation " Come with me to the Casbah ," which was heard in trailers for Algiers but not in the film itself, became an exaggerated romantic overture, largely owing to its use by Looney Tunes cartoon character Pepé Le Pew, himself a spoof of Pépé le Moko.
Also, while Pepé seems oblivious of himself smelling bad, Fifi realizes she has a foul odor and often uses it to her advantage during desperate situations.
The invitation " Come with me to the Casbah ," which was heard in trailers for Algiers but not in the film itself, became an exaggerated romantic overture promising exoticism and mystery, largely owing to its use by Looney Tunes cartoon character Pepé Le Pew, himself a spoof of Pépé le Moko.
In another short, Little Beau Pepé, Pepé, attempting to find the most arousing cologne with which to impress Penelope, sprays a combination of perfumes and colognes upon himself.
And yet again, in Really Scent, Pepé removes his odor by locking himself in a deodorant plant so Penelope ( Or known as " Fabrette ", in this instance a black cat with an unfortunate birthmark ) would like him ( this is also the only episode that Pepé is acutely aware of his own odor, having checked the word Pew in the dictionary ).
In his initial cartoon, Odor-able Kitty, Pepé ( technically he is a different character because he is eventually revealed to be an American-accented family man named Henry ) unwittingly pursues a male cat who disguises himself as a skunk.
However, in the short film, Chuck Jones: Memories of Childhood, Jones says Pepé was actually based on himself, but that he was very shy with girls, and Pepé obviously was not.
This differs from later entries in several areas: Pepé spends his time in ( unknowing ) pursuit of a male cat, who has deliberately disguised himself as a skunk ( complete with a limburger scent ) in order to scare off a bunch of characters mistreating him ; and in the closing gag, Pepé is revealed to actually be a philandering American skunk named Henry ( complete with wife and children !).
Since Selzer had, in Jones ' opinion, consistently proven himself to be wrong about absolutely everything ( having once barred Jones from doing any cartoons featuring Pepé Le Pew, on the grounds that he perceived them as not being funny, which led to Jones and Maltese to do For Scent-imental Reasons, which won an Oscar, which Selzer accepted ), the only possible option was to make the cartoon.
Pepé and made
Pepé made several cameo appearances on the 1990 series Tiny Toon Adventures as a professor at Acme Looniversity and the mentor to the female skunk character Fifi La Fume.
Pepé also made a cameo appearances in the Histeria!
Pepé and more
Now more forceful and demanding, Penelope quickly corners the terrified Pepé, who, after smelling her new stench, wants nothing more than to escape the amorous female cat.
For some unknown reason, Penelope is always mute ( more precisely-does only natural cat sounds ) in these stories ; only the self-deluded Pepé speaks ( several non-recurring human characters are given minimal dialogue, often nothing more than a repulsed, " Le pew!
Pepé would appear once more in " Tweety's High-Flying Adventure ", falling in love with both Sylvester and Penelope ( Sylvester had gotten a white stripe on his back from Penelope as they fought over Tweety ), actually showing a preference for Sylvester.
Pepé also appears in Space Jam, where his voice has curiously been changed into an approximation of Maurice Chevalier, as opposed to more traditional vocalization.
Pepé and cameo
From 1945 until the original Warner Bros. Cartoons studio closed, Freleng had almost exclusive use of Tweety at the Warner cartoon studio ( much like Yosemite Sam ), with the exception of a brief cameo in No Barking in 1954, directed by Chuck Jones ( that year, Freleng used Pepé Le Pew, a Jones character, for the only time in his career and the only time in a Tweety short, Dog Pounded ).
Pepé was going to have a cameo in Who Framed Roger Rabbit but was later dropped for reasons unknown.
Pepé and ),
In Wild Over You, Pepé attempts to seduce a Wild Cat that has escaped a zoo ( during what is called " Le grande tour du Zoo " at a turn of the century exhibition ), and painted itself to look like a skunk to escape its keepers.
Pepé possibly makes a small appearance as a baby skunk in Mouse-Placed Kitten ( 1959 ), where he is reluctantly adopted by a mouse couple at the cartoon end.
Pepé and where
This should be noted as one of the two cartoons where the character, if this is indeed Pepé, used his scent-spray as a deliberate weapon: delivered from his tail in a machine gun-like fashion.
Pepé would later appear in the episode " Paris is Stinking ", where he pursues Sylvester who is unintentionally dressed in drag.
Pepé and was
He was brought to life by the actor Johnny Depp, who based his characterization on The Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards and cartoon character Pepé Le Pew.
Chuck Jones, Pepé's creator, wrote that Pepé was based ( loosely ) on the personality of his Termite Terrace colleague, writer Tedd Pierce, a self-styled " ladies ' man " who reportedly always assumed that his infatuations were requited.
There have been theories that Pepé was based on Maurice Chevalier.
For the remaining cartoons Jones directed, Pepé retained his accent, nationality, and bachelor status throughout, and the object of his pursuit was always ( or nearly always ) female.
Pepé was, at one point, integral to the storyline for the movie Looney Tunes: Back in Action.
Originally, once Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, DJ, and Kate arrived in Paris, Pepé was to give them a mission briefing inside a gift shop.
Jones credited Pierce in his 1989 autobiography Chuck Amuck: The Life and Times of an Animated Cartoonist as being the inspiration for the character Pepé Le Pew, the haplessly romantic French skunk due to Pierce's self-proclamation that he was a lady's man.
" This led to a feud with Norman Smiley in which Pepé was thrown into a woodchipper by Smiley.
According to some film historians, although he loudly ( and indelicately ) declared that there was nothing funny about a skunk who spoke French, he proudly accepted the Academy Award for Animated Short Film in 1949-for For Scent-imental Reasons, a Pepé Le Pew cartoon.
Some of the early phone calls involved getting Deutsch to unwittingly call out a name that was actually an embarrassing pun such as " Phil Lacio ( fellatio )", " Jim Nasium ( gymnasium )", or " Pepé Roni ( pepperoni )".
Chavo Guerrero, Jr. attempted to join several times, but Eddie did not allow him to become a member since Chavo was ( kayfabe ) mentally unstable at the time and carried around a wooden horse named Pepé.
Pepé and attracted
However, unlike Pepé, who reeks all the time, Fifi's musk only comes into play when she is attracted to someone, or when it would advance the plot, thus allowing her to interact with other characters when she is not the central focus of the story.
Pepé and Sylvester
He directed many of the classic short animated cartoons starring Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, the Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote, Sylvester, Pepé Le Pew and a slew of other Warner characters.
Pepé and after
As Penelope frantically races to get away from Pepé, he hops after her at a leisurely pace.
In the 1995 animated short Carrotblanca, a parody / homage of the classic film Casablanca, both Pepé and Penelope appear: Pepé ( voiced by Greg Burson ) as Captain Renault and Penelope ( voiced by Tress MacNeille ) as " Kitty Ketty ", modeled after Ingrid Bergman's performance as Ilsa.
In the episode The World is My Circus, Lexi Bunny complains that " this Pepé Le Pew look is definitely not me " after being mutated into a skunk-like creature.
Pepé and around
A French skunk that always strolls around in Paris in the springtime, when everyone's thoughts are of " love ", Pepé is constantly seeking " l ' amour " of his own.
Pepé and attempt
The segment " Out of Odor " from the episode " Viewer Mail Day " saw character Elmyra disguise herself as Pepé in an attempt to lure Fifi into a trap, only to have Fifi begin aggressively wooing her.
Pepé and by
Jones is the one largely responsible for turning Daffy from a bouncing screwball to a neurotic narcissist, and it is Jones who introduced several characters who are driven by believable impulses rather than just revenge, such as Wile E. Coyote with his obsessive pursuit of the Road Runner and Pepé Le Pew with his outsize libido.
In a role-reversal, the Academy Award-winning 1949 short For Scent-imental Reasons ended with an accidentally painted ( and now terrified ) Pepé being aggressively pursued by a madly smitten Penelope ( who has been dunked in dirty water, leaving her with a ratty appearance and a developing head cold, completely clogging up her nose ).
However, Penelope ( who in this picture is actually trying to have a relationship with Pepé because all the male cats of New Orleans take her to be a skunk and run like blazes, but is appalled by his odor ) had decided to make her own odor match her appearance and had locked herself in a Limburger cheese factory.
( Credited to Abe Levitow, this cartoon is the only short in the Pepé Le Pew series not directed by Chuck Jones, save the debatable Odor of the Day — see below ).
In Loonatics Unleashed, a human based on Pepé Le Pew called Pierre Le Pew ( voiced by Maurice LaMarche ) has appeared as one of the villains of the second season of the show.
A 2009 Valentine's Day-themed AT & T commercial brings Pepé and Penelope's relationship up to date, depicting Penelope not as repulsed by Pepé, but madly in love with him.
* Odor of the Day ( 1948, the only cartoon in which Pepé is not a " lovebird " nor does he have a French accent ; directed by Arthur Davis )
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